Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist​/Therapist

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Therapist

Would you like to be part of a small psychology inpatient team supporting people struggling with Eating Disorders? You will be working alongside a great wider MDT who are all passionate, caring and work collaboratively.

We are looking for a psychologist or psychological therapist who can offer compassionate and trauma informed interventions for our patients and their families as well as supporting the team through training and supervision.

This full time role requires someone comfortable with inpatient work which can be fast paced and challenging yet also incredibly rewarding. As a psychology team we need to be both flexible, creative, containing and nurturing and to enable this there are plenty of opportunities for development, training and lots of support.

We welcome applications from final year Trainees who will be qualified this year and as such would not start in post until they meet the band 7 criteria through completing their qualification.

Please note face to face interview date is Tuesday 17th March.

The Haldon is a 10 bedded tier 4 Specialist Inpatient Eating Disorder Unit (SEDU) in Exeter which supports patients from across the South West. The Haldon is part of the wider eating disorder pathway including the Eating Disorder Outreach Team (EDOT) and Community Eating Disorder Services across the south west.

Job Description is subject to review from banding review panel.

The role is about taking a lead on the therapeutic programme and ensuring we are a formulation based service. This requires ensuring there is a balance between meaningful groups by the MDT and individual input as well as supporting team formulations. We offer individual formulation based interventions which require integrating models for the patients' needs. A significant amount of the individual work is trauma based, sometimes focused on stabilisation and sometimes about processing the trauma and many of our patients have neurodiversity needs.

We work with the person's wider system and offer family sessions as well as psychoeducation for families. This role will involve supervision of Assistant Psychologists and Trainees were appropriate as well as supervising and training for the wider MDT and service development.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people within the Haldon Eating Disorder Service including those within the Eating Disorder Outreach Team (EDOT) as and when appropriate.

This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:

• Providing a psychological perspective to the treatment of people within the Haldon Eating Disorder Service including those within EDOT where appropriate.

2. Providing local clinical leadership, consultation and supervision for trainees, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other clinical staff employed by or attached to the Haldon service or EDOT, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional Lead.

3. Providing specialist psychological assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions to people served by the Haldon Eating Disorder Service including EDOT where appropriate. Utilizing evidence-based models of treatment and integrated models of intervention including trauma based work e.g. EMDR.

4. Close working with the multidisciplinary team in the inpatient and EDOT, including dissemination of person-centered formulations, consultation, support, supervision and training.

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